UFO Sightings in Canada and Australia Need Further Research

Ufology Research, which has recorded UFO sightings in Canada since 1989, said there were 986 sighting reports in 2011. This figure is close to the 1,004 sightings recorded in 2008.

A panel of scientists concluded, on June 29, 1998, that science has badly neglected the study of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), despite numerous reports and considerable public interest. “It may be valuable to carefully evaluate UFO reports to extract information about unusual phenomena currently unknown to science,” the experts, headed by Stanford University physicist Peter Sturrock, wrote in a report released on Monday. This photo depicts a possible UFO sighting, as reported by the Journal of Scientific Exploration.

The study notes only 11 per cent of the sightings could not be explained. The rest were determined to be regular lights in the sky.

“Results of this study show many people continue to report unusual objects in the sky, and some of these objects do not have obvious explanations. Many witnesses are pilots, police and other individuals with reasonably good observing capabilities and good judgement,” the study notes.

However, none of these sightings were linked to alien contacts.

“Popular opinion to the contrary, there is no incontrovertible evidence that some UFO cases involve extraterrestrial contact.”

The study recommends a deeper look into the UFO phenomenon by social, medical and physical scientists.

In Australia, there also appears to be an increase in UFO sightings. Fifty-one-year old Jane Pooley is one of the latest UFO witnesses to come out in the news.

For his part, Australian UFO investigator Doug Moffett says people should see the scientific possibility of alien UFOs. He laments that many people typically deem UFO sightings to be unworthy of further studies.

At least one of the June 2012 sightings in Australia remains inexplicable.

UFO confusion and hoaxes

Some UFO observations are misidentified conventional objects or natural phenomena, according to studies. Aircraft, balloons, noctilucent clouds, nacreous clouds often create illusions to the naked eye, making one believe that a strange unidentified object is flying across the sky.Meteors and bright planets are also mistaken for UFOs. On top of these typical mistakes, there are people deliberately creating UFO hoaxes for attention and publicity.

UFO sightings in Canada neared a record high last year, while Manitoba reported its third-highest number of cases ever in the province. According to a report released Tuesday by Ufology Research, which has studied unidentified flying objects in this country since 1989, there were 986 sightings across the country in 2011 – or almost three per day.